US 2003/0193413 A1 · Business methods for notification systems

Abstract

Business methods for notification systems are provided. One such method, among others, can be summarized by the following steps: offering to a user a notification service regarding status of travel of a movable thing relative to a location; charging a fee to the user in exchange for the notification service; in accordance with the notification service: (a) enabling the user to define at least two communications methods for receiving notifications relating to travel of a mobile thing; (b) enabling the user to define one or more criteria when each of the communications methods should be used as opposed to the one or more others; (c) monitoring travel data associated with the movable thing; and (d) providing a notification to the user using at least one of the communications methods based upon a particular proximity of the movable thing to the location and the one or more criteria.

Claims8

Dependent claims

A method of doing business, comprising:

offering to a user a notification service regarding status of travel of a movable thing relative to a location;
charging a fee to the user in exchange for the notification service;
in accordance with the notification service:
enabling the user to define at least two communications methods for receiving notifications relating to travel of a mobile thing;
enabling the user to define one or more criteria when each of the communications methods should be used as opposed to the one or more others;
monitoring travel data associated with the movable thing;
and
providing a notification to the user using at least one of the communications methods based upon a particular proximity of the movable thing to the location and the one or more criteria.

5 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

10/435,770Filed 12 May 2003

Priority

18 May 1993

Published

16 Oct 2003

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

G06Q 10/08
Administration; Management: logistics, e.g. warehousing, loading or distribution; Inventory or stock management
G08G 1/123
Traffic control systems for road vehicles: indicating the position of vehicles, e.g. scheduled vehicles; Managing passenger vehicles circulating…
G08G 1/20
Traffic control systems for road vehicles: monitoring the location of vehicles belonging to a group, e.g. fleet of vehicles, countable or…
G06Q
Information and communication technology [ict] specially adapted for administrative, commercial, financial, managerial

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